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TIL: Pixar changed the plot of ‘Finding Dory’ upon watching the 2013 documentary 'Blackfish’

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69BOQ TIL Frank Sinatra had a bottle of jack daniels placed beside him in his coffin.
QNn4M TIL Pixar's "UP" Was Originally About Two Princes, a Floating City, and a strange large bird
wERM TIL Aircraft black boxes are designed to be able to withstand the pressure of being a mile underwater for up to 30 days. In the case of the Airbus box on Air France 447 it spent over 2 ½ years at over 3 miles deep and was still able to determine the cause of the accident.
9YWvG TIL that people whose mother language is anumeric (a language that has no way of expressing arbitrary numbers) struggle to compare and remember the exact size of collections of as little as four objects. This suggests that numeric abilities are intrinsically related to linguistic abilities
PL9e TIL Forty Is The Only Number With Its Letters In Alphabetical Order